The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1887-02-03

EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT. STATE or FLORIDA.
OFFICE OF SURF or Pun. Inst.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla, Feb. LIST. 1887
Editors F1oridicn. Will you please give pub
lication to the following statement regarding the
Normal Institute to be conducted at DeFuniak
during the six weeks session of the Florida
Chautauaua II is 90 much in the interest OF
our teachers and especially to our young men
and women who are entering the profession from
our own schools, seminaries and colleges, that
feel it is also of general public interest.
This Institute will bring the teachers who
may avail themselves of it land certainly all
who feel any deficiency should gladly and earn
estly enter) in contact with one Of the most COM
petent and earnest Of all our foremost educa-
tors, Dr. Edward Brooks.
l earnestly recommend this course to all
teachers, and those who may desire to become
such.
Below will be found full description of the
course with expense and other detailed accounts:
The Teaehers' Normal Institute.
A. Gilet, D. d. Superintendent of Instruction.
Edward Brooks LII. D., Dean.
CoUNsBLORs.-HOn.A A. j. Russell, Florida; Hon.
Solomon Palmer, Alabama; Hon. Gustavus Orr,
Georgia
The managers of the Florida Chautauqua have
planned Normal Institute for the training OF pub
lie school teachers. The first annual session OF the
Institute will be held on the grounds OF the Florida
Chautauqua, beginning Wednesday, February @5d,
and closing Thursday, March 31st. DR.. Edward
Brooks, of Philadelphia, late Principal of the Penn
sylvania State Normal School and author Of " Nor
NAL Methods of Teaching" will have charge OF all
the practical work of the Institute. He will have
such assistants may be required The course of
instruction will be thorough and practical, ana at
it's conclusion there will be competitive examine
tions for teachers certificates. The examination
will be conducted under the direction OF the coun
sellers.
In addition to the regular work Of the Normal
Institute teachers will have the advantages onered
by the Florida Chautauqua In other directions !;
special of instruction In art, elocuti0n, mu
sic, photography language, ETC.; the Assembly lee
ture course, including brilliantly illustrated lectures
on science, history, art travel, etc. During the
first week of the Institute teachers will have all the
advantages of the Interstate Teachers Congress
and Florida State Teachers Institute and the Sec.
ond Annual Meeting of the Florida State Teachers
Associations At these meetings papers will be
read and addresses delivered by some OF the fore
most educators in the land, including DR.. VIM. IL.
Payne Professor of Pedagogics in the Michigan
State University; Prof c. NJ. Woodward A. NJ, of
the Manual Training Department of Washington
University, st. Louis, Mo-; DR.. B. G. Northrup, Of
Clinton, Conn; Prof Leroy D. Brown, State Com
Prof F. H. Taylor, A. NJ, Specialist in History,
Albion College, Albion, Mich; Prof A. NJ. Haupt
A. NJ, Cleveland, Ohio, Specialist In the German
Language; and many others
The special courses of lecture lessons and studies
by DR.. Brooks, during the Institute, will be on the
following subjects:
l. METHODS OF CULTURE.
ii. METHODS OF TEACHING.
III. SCHOOL ECoNoMY
l. The course in Methods Of Culture will embrace
the following subjects
l. Nature Of the mind. Z. Culture Of Reasoning.
2. Culture of Attention. g. Culture Of Taste.
g. Culture of Observation. Culture OF the Moral Ma
4. Culture OF Memory. ture. -
S. Culture of Imagination 10. Culture Of the WILL
9. Culture Of Judgment.
H. The course in Methods Of Teaching will en-
brace the following subjects
l. Principles OF Primary 7. Methods OF Teaching
Teaching. Grammar.
2 The use Of Objects in g. Methods of Teaching
Teaching Geography.
T. Mehods sSf Teaching Or TO- Methods Of Teaching
s. Me tsSSdspns q, Teaching ing anu D''"
Arithmetic.
8. Methods Of Teaching
Language.
III. The course in School Economy will embrace
the following subjects:
l. School Organization. 8. School Management.
2. School classification. 4. School Discipline.
The expense of attending the Institute will be
stitute including admission to all the Assembly
lectures and entertainments except special classes
will be $6. Board can be had at from a to 81 per
week. and teachers may room and board In clubs,
points in Florida, Southern Georgia, and Alabama
very low Inquire of your station agent, and if the
information is not satisfactory, write to w. D. Chip
ley, Esq, Pensacola, Fla
Respectfully, A. j. RUSSELL,
Superintendent Public instruction.
~ State papers please copy.